Photo by Ron Thomas

“What we are trying to do is find a way of making learning in the arts a lifelong process. This means the human needs, personal needs and communal needs that you bring to each stage of your life have the arts as one of the necessary human languages.”  

Dana Gioia
Chairman
National Endowment for the Arts

“The things that we overlook like creativity in the last stage of life or the power of reminiscence, when we finally get around to paying attention to them turn out to have extraordinary power. “

Harry Moody, Ph.D.
Director of Academic Affairs, AARP

“We’re moving from a deficit approach—where older people are seen primarily as diseases in need of medical attention—to an asset or strength-based approach that recognizes what older people can bring to quality of life both for themselves and their communities.”

Susan Perlstein
Founder and Executive Director
National Center for Creative Aging and Elders Share the Arts